New Princess ships follow blueprint

Building cruise ships is so much more economical when you can build several in the same class. When you’re using the same blueprint, you can get creative and whimsical with the ship’s interior.

Take Princess Cruises, having recently announced the addition of ships number four and five to its Royal Class. You will have to wait a while as they’re not expected on the water until 2019 and 2020.

“We are incredibly proud and excited to add two new ships to our already formidable fleet,” said Jan Swartz, Princess President. “With this new ship commitment, Princess Cruises will continue to grow and expand globally as the world’s destination leader in premium cruising.”

The unnamed, 143,700-ton, 3,560-passenger ships will be the brand’s fourth and fifth for a class that features an evolution of the successful design platform used on Royal Princess, Regal Princess and the new Majestic Princess, coming in 2017 and heading to its permanent home in Asia.

The new Princess ships will include all the well-known elements that Royal Class passengers enjoy and a lot of “new” will go into both of these ships.

All for now.

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